Jonny Bairstow has savaged the Decision Review System, voicing England's displeasure at the lack of uniformity used around the world and the differences in interpretation that saw the tourists suffer on the third day of the final Ashes Test.

England felt hard done by two calls that went against them as they were kept in the field for the entire day under the searing Sydney sun.

Firstly Mason Crane was denied his maiden Test wicket when he was deemed to have overstepped when trapping Usman Khawaja lbw on 132. The 20-year-old leg-spinner eventually dismissed Khawaja on 171 to take his first wicket on debut.

Jonny Bairstow was unhappy to see Usman Khawaja's LBW overturned for a marginal no ball

But he might have been celebrating earlier had third umpire Sundaram Ravi given the marginal no-ball call in his favour in the final over before lunch.

Replays suggested part of Crane's front foot landed fractionally behind the line but Ravi moved the footage on one frame to determine otherwise.

England were then denied the wicket of Mitchell Marsh in the final session after the Australian successfully reviewed his lbw dismissal to Tom Curran. The call by Ravi this time was right – the ball was missing leg stump.

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But the Indian third umpire reached it in entirely the wrong way – determining Marsh had edged the ball because of a small spike on Snicko despite the fact slow-motion replays showed daylight between bat and ball.

England were enraged by the decision to dismiss opener Mark Stoneman caught behind in questionable circumstances during the first innings of the third Test in Perth, with captain Joe Root making a complaint to match referee Richie Richardson.

Now Bairstow, when asked about Crane's no-ball, has voiced the tourists' displeasure at the random nature of DRS in no uncertain terms.

Mason Crane was denied a maiden Test wicket after be judged to have overstepped the mark

Bairstow says it is important for the DRS rules to be uniform across the cricketing world

'I'm sure there's plenty of screens inside they can zoom in on and get the right angles of whether someone has overstepped or not,' said England's wicketkeeper.

'I think that when it comes to technology it's important moving forward – not just for England or Australia but for all of the teams that are playing – there's real clarity on the actual process and real clarity on how the review system works.

'That's getting Hawkeye that's matching up to the balls that are coming down from the TV feed, getting Snicko right because that can potentially be picking up people's feet that are moving and scratching around the crease as well as everything else.

'We know HotSpot doesn't necessarily pick up every single edge because otherwise you'd just use HotSpot all the whole way through. You wouldn't need Snicko.

'But we're aware there's two different systems in place around the world and making sure there's clarity on how those systems work is important. For us as players, when we're out in the middle and you don't know which system is in place it can be very frustrating, especially when you're toiling very hard for a long period of time.

Bairstow's stumping of Khawaja eventually gave Crane his first Test wicket on the third day

'The technology is there to be used but we need to make sure the technology that is being used is of the highest standard because it's people's careers and livelihoods that you're messing with.'

Bairstow's stumping of Khawaja eventually gave Crane his first Test wicket.

'I thought he bowled nicely,' he said. 'There was going to be a bit of pressure on him and I thought he dealt with it well.

'He's not played a huge amount of first-class cricket and in your first innings in international Test cricket let alone Ashes cricket to bowl 39 overs as a 20-year-old leg-spinner stands us in really good stead moving forward. I was really pleased to be a part of his first wicket.'